Washington | 8 days ago
People with anxiety disorder over-react
Washington, Feb 11 - People with generalised anxiety disorder - have abnormalities in the way their brain unconsciously controls emotions.That's the conclusion of a new Stanford University School of Medicine - study, which could open up new avenues for treatments and change our perception of how emotion is regulated in everyday life. GAD in particular is marked by extreme feelings of fear and unce ... read more

Washington | 9 days ago
Blame childhood obesity on TV ads on junk food
Washington, Feb 10 - The link between TV viewing and childhood obesity is directly related to children's exposure to ads that publicise unhealthy foods, says a new study.Conducted by Frederick J. Zimmerman and Janice F. Bell, of the University of California - Los Angeles -, the study is the first to break down the types of TV children watch to better determine whether different kinds of content ma ... read more

24 days ago
Women put on weight after marriage: study
New York, Jan 26 - Married women can now blame their husbands for that extra flab as a new study has found that those living with a partner put on more weight than the single ones. Married women were two kg heavier than their unmarried counterparts and they become four kg heavier after having a baby, said the research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The researchers at ... read more

25 days ago
Ramakrishnan, Zakaria, Chatwal amongst NRI Padma awardees
New Delhi, Jan 25 - Thirteen foreigners, non resident Indians - and people of Indian origin -, including Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Indian American journalist Fareed Zakaria and New York-based hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal, have been given the Padma awards this year for services to India. While Britain-based Ramakrishnan, who got the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last year, has got the P ... read more

1 month ago
Does a college degree insure against memory problems?
Washington, Jan 12 - If you lack a college degree, you're likely to be at a higher risk of developing memory problems. It has been well documented that those with such a degree possess cognitive advantage over their less qualified counterparts, in middle and old age. Now, a national study from Brandeis University shows that those with less schooling can significantly compensate for poorer educ ... read more

3 months ago
Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance
A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths - suffered by U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and more than twice as many as have died - since the war began in 2001.The researchers, who released thei ... read more

3 months ago
Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance
A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths - suffered by U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and more than twice as many as have died - since the war began in 2001.The researchers, who released thei ... read more

3 months ago
Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance
A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths - suffered by U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and more than twice as many as have died - since the war began in 2001.The researchers, who released thei ... read more

3 months ago
Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance
A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths - suffered by U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and more than twice as many as have died - since the war began in 2001.The researchers, who released thei ... read more

3 months ago
Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance
A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths - suffered by U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and more than twice as many as have died - since the war began in 2001.The researchers, who released thei ... read more